"I want to stare out of your eyes like windows..."﻿﻿

Aside from personal experiences, the piece was inspired by the following digital image from Polish artist Maciej Zielinski as well as Lucy Snyder's Bram Stoker Award Winning short story "Magdala Amygdala". (Be sure to read that here in Nightmare Magazine if you haven't yet.)

Does artwork ever inspire any of you in your writing? If not, what does?

Sanitarium . . . Bringing you the best in horror fiction & dark verse, one case at a time.

Interesting in submitting? Perhaps they can prepare a room for you. Check out the guidelines for fiction, dark verse, and artwork here.

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Many thanks to Editor Barry Skelhorn for putting together such a gorgeous publication and including my piece.

Barry was wonderful to work with, and is clearly dedicated to the craft--his team's tagline under Our Story reads "Horror and Dark Verse is in our blood"--and I don't doubt that for a minute.

He runs a Contributors Group on Facebook for anyone who has been published in the magazine, and appears to be very writer and artist oriented. It's quite simply just a beautiful publication, and I am looking forward to contributing more work to future issues. Check out the impressive catalog of Sanitarium Issues on Amazon US here . . . and Amazon UK here.﻿

Author & Editor

﻿Sydney Leigh is the evil literary double of a mostly sane writer, editor, photographer, artist, English teacher, and native of the North Shore. Her poetry, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications.

Her best friend is a Border Collie, and despite holding degrees in English, Psychology, and Graphic Design, she spends most of her free time doing her teenage son’s laundry and playing rock-paper-scissors with her imaginary roommate, Ted.